Recent content by LostSailor

But the halyard is secured first on the mast cleat (or to the deck cleat). Then you use "only the deck cleat" to secure the vang. I now understand that rigging the main and vang requires two cleat hitches, I just hadn't found a tutorial showing how to do both on a single cleat. My problem now...

Hey Now, I rigged my sunfish for the first time this morning — just in time for the wind to die out. I followed a how-to video showing the rigging of a mast with a cleat on its side, but my boat only has a deck cleat, so the procedure for tying my vang had to differ. Eventually, I managed to...

Hey now, This 81 sunfish belonged to my late father. I took her on, and as I was prepping to sail later this week, I discovered there's no damn rudder cheek assembly (main bolt, tension springs, etc) — looks like he never got around to mounting his latest homemade blade. God knows where the...